6'8" here, but you know it comes down to attitude.
If someone acknowledges your height, you can take it as a positive or negative......it's all in your head

Back to sports....for me in windsurfing (25+ years), height was always a non-factor. Now in mountain biking it's a little different ....not as many "cool" XXL bikes to choose from. That said, I absolutely love my Carbon Superfly and really am comfortable (and competitive) on it

You don't hear people saying, "Wow you're so short! Are you a horse jockey?"

Exactly. I do agree with Surfdog, attitude matters. We embrace our tall-ness. Someone asked me why I was wearing high heels today.."aren't you tall enough?". I just shot her my million dollar smile and said "I cant hide it, I might as well run with it!". It took me a lot of years to come to that place.

I notice that my son gets a lot of female attention, based at least in part on his height. Girls love to snuggle him.

Life must be so much easier in the States though.I can't get shoes (sz 17) or clothes or a bike either here in Greece...although, apart from coming within an inch of my life due to a bus mirror nearly knocking my head off and not being able to fit into a bumper car anymore, i love being big...6'7 255...as mentioned before i love this forum!

Also if all the 1%ers of the world got together they would easily kick all the 99%ers a@*
Ben.

Con:
- Entire built environment is too small
- Clothes don't fit
- People make assumptions about you
- Old age won't be much fun

It's a bit bratty to complain about being tall, but when people say, "oh, it must be so nice!", I sometimes fantasise about building a theme park of normal stuff that's a third smaller than usual, so everyone else can feel tall for a day.

6'8" and British (where on the upper deck of buses the roof height is around shoulder height). All the doorways in my home are 2m so I dip automatically as I move from room to room.
Bike choice definitely a problem - I'm currently saving for a Surly Ogre.

On the morbidity subject, I read of an alternative view that bigger animals work slower (including the heart) so last a bit longer, just like a mouse only lives a year or so. Could be complete rubbish but my glass is half full.
Mick

And my height has taken it's toll. Office desks. Chairs. Kitchen counters. Everything is too short.
Also back surgery at the age of 26 years old is no fun either.

Can't ride a 21" bike; needs to be a 21.5" with a Thompson post (that extra 10mm makes it) or a 22" or larger.
Really sucks that bike companies won't just increase the seat tube on some of these bikes. Honestly; how many guys riding 21" bikes do you see that have their seat slammed with no post sticking out? Why not just leave the geometry and sizing the same but just make the seat tube 1-2" taller? They can even call it / label it a 21" bike for all I care.
I had that conversation with Niner; they didn't get it.

On a practical note - anyone aware of long seatposts? If I can find a 450mm seatpost, it will suddenly open up a whole new realm of bikes.

And my height has taken it's toll. Office desks. Chairs. Kitchen counters. Everything is too short.
Also back surgery at the age of 26 years old is no fun either.

Can't ride a 21" bike; needs to be a 21.5" with a Thompson post (that extra 10mm makes it) or a 22" or larger.
Really sucks that bike companies won't just increase the seat tube on some of these bikes. Honestly; how many guys riding 21" bikes do you see that have their seat slammed with no post sticking out? Why not just leave the geometry and sizing the same but just make the seat tube 1-2" taller? They can even call it / label it a 21" bike for all I care.
I had that conversation with Niner; they didn't get it.

On a practical note - anyone aware of long seatposts? If I can find a 450mm seatpost, it will suddenly open up a whole new realm of bikes.

On a practical note - anyone aware of long seatposts? If I can find a 450mm seatpost, it will suddenly open up a whole new realm of bikes.

The problem with fitting into a short cockpit is the bike still doesn't fit just because you can bottom out the pedal stroke. The angles and leverage will still mean we have more strain on our knees and can't really get the power out of the pedal stroke. Longer cranks help but then the bottom out factor on rocks roots... comes into play...

Just like with some clothes companies, if a bike company would just charge a little more (if need be) and build at least one model to fit the 1% it would be great. Even if you had to order it and wait but still treat it as a production model so your not building a 'custom' bike and paying 'custom' prices.

I have a custom road bike and when my PARKPRE was stolen I was really aggrevated because it came really close to fitting well. And without the $$$ for a custom bike virtually everything since has been a serious compromise.